I discovered these under a small bush at a client's house. The small enclosure had a berry inside. I crushed one and tasted a bit - definitely sweet, not bitter.

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TOMATILLO?

Physalis peruviana, a plant species of the genus Physalis in the nightshade family Solanaceae, has its origin in Peru.[2][3] The plant and its fruit are commonly called Cape gooseberry, goldenberry, poha, and physalis, among numerous regional names.[2][4] It has been cultivated in England since the late 18th century, and in South Africa in the Cape of Good Hope since at least the start of the 19th century.[2] Widely introduced in the 20th century, P. peruviana is cultivated or grows wild across the world in temperate and tropical regions.[3]

Dude! By jove I think you've got it! I was pretty sure I was going to eat these things but I thought I better research it first. I am a berry eatin' foo', Imo tell you what.

My latest morning mantra/sacracment/regimen, whatever is a smoothie with 5 berry types and maybe half of a Danjou pear. The berries are TJ's frozen wild aboreal blueberries, maybe 4 or 5 raspberries, and a small amount of rehydrated dried berries (soaked overnight): cranberries, goji berries, and mulberry berries. The last so named as most people think mulberry are leaves that silkworms eat. They are correct and the berries are not referenced nearly as often. Maybe I'm kidding myself but this breakfast is supposedly going to keep me strong and healthy.

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The wiki page link for the item that Greazzer identifies says they are related to tomatillos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis_peruviana

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I would maybe eat just a tiny amount of one and work your way into a few to make sure you don’t go tits up. I’ve seen a few true badasses out in the field who tried the local fauna and they were down for the count. They were certain what they sampled was safe but it wasn’t

I touched my tongue to that opened one after I crushed it a bit and it was very nice. Not sure if bitterness is a sure sign of toxic and sweet tasty is a sign of benign good or not.

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Not always. Raw ginger burns and tastes like shyte but it’s good for you. If you don’t get sick or your mouth is on fire they might be ok. I wouldn’t eat a bunch until I inched up to one. There’s a type of apple or it resembles an apple which grows wild. It tastes ok but if you eat one you’re crapping like a goose for a few days. About the size of a golf ball. Not the common crab apple. I will try to find a snappy. So taste isn’t a perfect test.

Monkey apples perhaps?

- Peter.

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In the family of nightshade got my attention earlier. Little to no knowledge of berries though. Your interest is enough to get a book on eatable berries

I believe I got perhaps a bad mushroom once in a commercial package. After I recovered I never ate another mushroom for over twenty years. The episode was that unforgettable..

Never seen anything like that before.

No, looks like a perfect miniature apple and tastes ok but if you’re ever plugged up one of those will clear you out in a violent manner.

Groundcherry.

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Good advice from Greazer to take it slow on a new fruit, especially a fruit from the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Many of them have dangerous alkaloids even parts of plants can be poisonous and other parts are edible. Or a physiological shift, like eating a green potato. Don’t eat a green potato.

Interesting on the alkaloids thing. Dunno if you've heard of a new thing that some people are wild about, the business of adding 'resistant starch' to your diet. I'm putting on my flame suit before I go further, some people think the notion is daft. The idea is that some starches are harder to digest, they resist normal stomach small intestine digestion and thus move on intact to the large intestine where the oft ballyhooed good gut bacteria go to town on it. Has many supposed good effects.

One of the easier ways to increase ones intake of it is to mix a couple of tbsp of potato starch in water. I also put in a tbsp of psylium husk, it to acts like a resistant starch and helps to extend the stuff through your colon before being consumed.

I know right? Swallowing potato starch to lose weight/improve health?? What thee hale am I smoking...

Proponents of the paleo diet point out that hunter gatherers consumed a lot more of this stuff than do modern people. Lot of digging for oddball tubers and half assed cooking of them is suggested. The theory being that our digestive tracts spent mega millenia evolving with the stuff present.

One guy I read suggests that potato starch can be 'washed' with citric or other acid, weak solution before consuming. You pour it off after a few hours, then rinse with water, after it settles pour that off and consume. Supposedly this can remove much of the nightshade drawbacks, some people are more sensitive to that than others.

FWIW, I use this semi-regularly. I'm sold on it. Great elimination and that is not trivial. Said to be good before bedtime as it helps sleep and gives good dreams. Something I have also noticed.

Those who might want to slime cmac the magnifico (face reading and telepathy consultant) on this one are invited to study the research. And if it makes some sense, experiment. Also plantain flour and green bananas are said to be a good way to go, the former a good bit more spendy than potato starch. Lentils give quite a bit of it also.

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